

Replication files for Suppressing Black Votes: A Historical Case Study of Voting Restrictions in Louisiana
American Political Science Review
Luke Keele, Ismail White, William Cubbinson

In order to replicate the analyses in the paper, please ensure that you have set the working directory to the appropriate folder where you have saved the data files. 

The replication archive contains R and Stata scripts to replicate all results in the paper. Each script is named for the table or figure it replicates.

Figure 1 was created in Excel and thus does not have a replication script, but can be replicated using one of the data sets described below.

The replication archive contains the following data sets 

la_turnout_basic.dta -- this data set contains the full time series need to create Figure 1.

did_1950.dta --  Parish-level data set containing data from 1950 used for Table 1.

did_50_60.dta -- Parish-level data set containing data from 1950 and 1960 used for Table 2 formatted for DID analysis.

turnout_lag.dta -- Parish-level data set containing data from 1950 and 1960 used for Figure 2 and Table 3 in the appendix.

did_40_50.dta -- Parish-level data set containing data from 1940 and 1950 used parallel trends test in the appendix.

Basic variable list for all data files"

parishnumber    byte    %8.0g                 Parish Number
year            int     %8.0g                 Year
yearf           str4    %9s                   Year
Parish          str16   %16s                  ﻿Parish
icpsrcounty     int     %8.0g                 ICPSR County
understanding   byte    %8.0g                 Understanding Clause2
whiteregrate    float   %9.0g                 White Reg Rate
blackregrate    float   %9.0g                 Black Reg Rate
percentblack    float   %9.0g                 Percent Black
blackpct20ins~l float   %9.0g                 Black Pct <20 in school


